Artist: Fire and Ice
Genre(s):
Gothic
Folk
Discography:
Birdking
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Midwinter Fires
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Hollowways
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
One of the more than vague just artistically hit branches of the Current 93/Nurse With Wound musical tree, Fire and Ice revolves around the primal digit of U.K. born and raised Ian Read. With an open face of lyric themes revolving around Nordic pagan mythology and attendee musical forms, Fire and Ice's do work has at points come under literary criticism for perceived right wing extremist golf links and themes, while the band's supporters just as strongly vouch for the music's interestingness in and of itself. However one chooses to rent it, Fire and Ice has created some impinging work, eschewing the cozier definitions of folk for a more self-consciously antique and inscrutable edge, tinged with the neo-psych explorative styles the World Serpent mark and associates ar well associated with. Read's initial musical work was with Current 93 via a vocal contribution on 1986's Swastikas for Noddy record album, but he first came to greater attention via his quislingism with Tony Wakeford, Sol Invictus. After a series of releases and performances under that list, Read left wing to engage his own interests more than thoroughly, foundation Fire and Ice in the early '90s. Since then Read has regularly released a number of albums and singles on a variety of labels, ordinarily his possess Fremdheit company in association with other like-minded spirits, piece his musical collaborators include performers from bands such as Death in June. Read himself became known for an irregular series of live appearances, sometimes solo and sometimes with a fuller lineup, at several floater more or less the globe, including a multifariousness of heathen ceremonies and rites.
